Jō Shishido Movies

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...

1962 Japanese movie

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the...

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

A 1967 crime film

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the...

The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....